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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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Why recreate something that has been done before? The best part of creating a new work of art or entertainment is that transference of your new ideas to something that others can share. Why do the hard part without including the best, most fun, part?
But then why make a movie out of any novel? The fun part was already done, wasn't it? Yeah, might as well eliminate the Oscar for best screenplay adapted from another medium.  | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| | Registered: March 28, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | VibroCount touches on an argument against remakes that I can get behind.
Theoretically every dollar invested in a remake of a story already told is a dollar NOT invested in a new story never told before. Meaning, remakes are potentially reducing the number of new stories told, and as a lover of storytelling I find that to be bad thing.
I'm not convinced it's that simple though. I'm sure studios must be making a profit on remakes, or they wouldn't be churning out so many of them. This profit can then be used to take a chance on new, unproven stories.
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| | Registered: June 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | 3:10 to Yuma. Haven't seen the original but I watched the 2007 version last night and it was superb, ending is a bit strange though  |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like new movies better. |
| | Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think the secret to making a good re-make is re-making a bad movie. I've been a fan of the new "Ocean's" movies and thought I check out Sinatra's "Ocean's 11," which in my opinion is not a very good movie. Maybe I'm used to seeing Clooney and his crew and since I saw the new one first and that tainted the enjoyment of old-blue eyes, but who's to say. | | | We're on a mission from God.
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| | Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting jadedoz2007: Quote:
The remake of Red Dragon was a good one. I second that. | | | We're on a mission from God.
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 863 |
| | Posted: | | | | One thing i always like ot put forward: 'Ben Hur' and 'the Ten Commandments' are remakes to (never seen the original versions but i own them since they were released packaged with the 'new' version),
so remakeing isn't always bad.
I enjoyed 'The Ring' for example, or 'the Magnificent Seven'. Some recent horror remakes were pretty good as well, 'the Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'the Hills Have Eyes'. I will not say they are better than the original bur they are enjoyable.
I think you should just watch the movie and judge it as the film it is, whether it's a remake or not, it can be good, and if it isn't, at least we still have the original.
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